Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon 550X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon 550X
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon 550X
1472
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon 550X
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Cypress
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1218 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1082 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
512
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
38.98
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131